As always its down to your own values

Subject: As always it's down to your own values.

Taking the personalities out of the discussion over Brexit and the political combinations arising for taking us out or leaving us in, the main impasse has been around the Irish Backstop. The question of having to create a border between Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland when the tensions amongst those in the community, Protestant and Catholic remain, in part at least, on the fringes, those of a deep hatred, one for the other.
There has been the claim that Boris has no plan, that he fiddles whilst Rome burns but what if that were the plan. Great focus is made of leaving on the 30th of October the date set when legally we leave the EU, a hotly contested date because Boris has focused minds on that date for 'crashing out without a deal', something most people fear because of its economic consequences. The 'Remainers' have become contorted in an effort to prevent us reaching that date without some sort of deal, even Mrs Mays deal is seeming more palatable than no deal but Boris through his actions and lack of action seems perversely determined that a 'no deal' would sever the knot cleanly and spare us years of negotiation, a negotiation in which we would have the weakest hand.
The assumption has been that Boris, playing to his fans, has insisted that the 30th of October the legally enforceable date, because of the pressure on him from the Brexit MPs in his party and In part his firing of 21 of the most senior Conservatives in Parliament was an indication of how desperate he had become. 
Parliament is febrile with claim and counter claim, plot and counter plot. The latest was that having been blocked by parliament he might now decided to go along to the EU and ask for a years extension which, during that year he negotiates the impossible including the Irish Backstop to show the country that despite  good faith the EU are an impossible hurdle to climb and therefore convince the country that whilst his hands are tied, we are cuckold to Johnny Foreigner. He then calls a General Election and wins with a sweeping victory.

 Such a Machiavellian plan, probably hatched by the strategist Dominic Cummins, has an attractive ring to it since it places the blame on the EU and not the UK.
What is interesting is that the popularity of Boris , even after all the drama, his lying and clear misrepresentation of facts, depending of which audience he is addressing, his savage ousting from the Party of 21 of the top parliamentarians who had served the party loyally, in many cases for their lifetime. It's also particularly galling that the power of number 10  now derives from people who are seen rightwing and ideological rather than the so called "one nation party" which the conservatives always claim to be. 
Recent  Polls show Johnson way ahead of Jeremy Corbyn and for people who care it's a travesty that  a man  who practices deceit, day in day out, who's private life makes him a poster boy for the more scurrilous news outlets, a man who has made the Country the laughing stock of the political world, seems to make him more eligible to the common English voter.  A caring, left wing politician who has made it his life's work to oppose  the growing inequality in the country is vilified. The general public seem unable to get past the headlines of the right wing press. The vitriol and the fear of Marxist truisms has sadly left Corbyn ineluctable. 
There used to be a term to describe the 'foot solders' going into battle, "canon fodder" men who were led to believe  ideas fed from on high were, willing to disregard reality their own reality for men like Boris and his Etonian disregard anything other than the exceptionalism bred in him by his elitist school  and its procedures, and its archaic practices has caught the modern idiom, that only a media contrived 'poster boy' has creditability and a man of 'lifelong conviction', has none.